Abstracts of the 2001 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 22–25, 2001, Chicago, IL
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The "Persianization" of Itihasa: History and Mughal Political Cultural in 18th-Century Bengal, Kumkum Chatterjee
Kali Yuga and Temporal Discontinuity, David Curley
Maratha Histories Before Colonialism, Stewart Gordon
Custom and the Uses of History in the British Government of Early Colonial Agrarian Bengal, Jon E. Wilson
Session 8. Religion and Secularism in South Asia: Social Context and Political Meaning
Who is the "Good Muslim"? Contesting Islam During the Reign of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, Brendan LaRocque
"Allah Ki Ye Vaada-Khilaari Afsos": The Uneasy Relationship of Progressive Urdu Poetry and Religion, Ali Husain Mir
Lessons in Women’s Self-defense: The Training of "Female Warriors" in Hindu Nationalism, Meera Sehgal
Minority Existence and the Subject of Conversion, Satish Kolluri
Session 28. Conversion, Law and Christian Identity in Modern India
Christians and Scheduled Caste Status: Contesting Ideologies of Conversion, Laura D. Jenkins
Inside Out/Outside In: Selected Cases of "Cognitive" Conversion and Identity Formation among Brahmin Christians in mid-19th-Century India, Richard Young
Civil Disabilities of Converts within Princely and British Ruled India, 1850–1890, Chandra Mallampalli
Tibet, British India, Subaltern Studies: Notes from a Different Bengal, Carole McGranahan
Three Visions of ‘Scientific’ Medicine in India, Gary J. Hausman
Writing Histories, Making Citizens: Women in India’s Partition, Debali Mookerjea
The Issue of Gender in the Plays of Bhuvanesvar Prasad Srivastav (1912/14–1957), Diana Dimitrova
Technical Terms: A Teacher’s Despair over Language in North Indian Schools, Chaise LaDousa
Session 50. Sanskrit Knowledge-Systems on the Eve of Colonialism
On the Success of Nilakantha’s Commentary, Christopher Minkowski
Sanskrit Traditions during the Rule of the Peshwas: Maintenance and Transition, Madhav Deshpande
Competing Systems of Knowledge in the Court of Jayasimha, Gary A. Tubb
The Languages of Science in Early-Modern India, Sheldon Pollock
Session 51. History, Theory and Asian Studies (SAC Designated Panel)
Session 71. Individual Papers: South Asian Politics: Nature, State, Ethnicity and Party
Mothering Earth? Gender and Environmental Protection in the Jharkhand, India, Sarah Jewitt
Changing Interpertations and the Power of the State: The 786 Urs Mela in Ajmer, Rajasthan (India), Keri Olsen
Globalization and the ‘Ethnic Conflict’ in Sri Lanka, Asoka Bandarage
The Limits of Hindu Sangathan: The All-India Hindu Mahasabha and the Depressed Classes, 1922–47, Keith Meadowcroft
Comparing One-Party Dominance: Japan’s LDP and India’s Congress Party, Anindya Saha
Session 72. Nonviolent and Quietistic Islam (Sponsored by South Asian Muslim Studies)
Tablighi Jamaat in Bangladesh: A Mass-Based Dawa Movement, Mumtaz Ahmad
Islamic Peaceful Action in Aceh, Karim D. Crow
Radical Islam and Nonviolence: A Case Study of Religious Empowerment Among Pashtuns, Robert Johansen
Rethinking Jihad: Wahiduddin Khan’s Theology of Non-Violence in Islam, Irfan A. Omar
Session 92. Slavery and Society in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Life in Slavery: Towards a Synthetic Biography, Sumit Guha
Varieties of Servitude: South Asian Slaves and Bonded Contracted Servants in India and Britain, Michael H. Fisher
‘A Gentler Institution’: British Officialdom and the Problem of Domestic Slavery in Nineteenth Century, Madras Sylvia Vatuk
History and the Erasure of the "Shameful Institution", Indrani Chatterjee
Insuring Lives, Assuring Rights: Nation, Citizenship and Globalization, Geeta Patel
Making Person and Citizen: Hindu Law Reform in Post-Colonial India, Narendra Subramanian
Community Development and Catholic Activism in South India, Ajantha Subramanian
Session 113. Individual Papers: Transforming Gods: Religious Appropriation in South Asia
Transcending Religious Boundaries: Cult of the Eight Matrikas in Nepal, Dina Bangdel
Whose Deities? Buddhist Influences in Later Hindu Tantras, Gudrun Buhnemann
A Hindu God in the Guise of a Mughal Emperor: The Ramayana of ‘Abd al-Rahim Khan Khanan, Anna M. Ranero-Antolin
Smallpox: The Measure of Morality, Eliza Kent
"We Will Become Jijabai": Folklore and Hindu Nationalist Women in India Kalyani, Devaki Menon
Session 114. Defining Crime and Representing Criminals in Colonial India
A Punishment to Fit the Crime: The Transportation of Criminals in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Colonial India, Anand A. Yang
Witches, Widows, and Barren Wives: The Folklore of Domestic Crime in Colonial North India, Michelle E. Maskiell
The Karnal Cattle-Lifting Caper: Cows, Crime, and Community in Colonial India, David Gilmartin
Session 135. Ethics and Emotions in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism
Productive Pleasures, Susanne Mrozik
Automatic Actions and the Ethics of Prasada, Andy Rotman
Gratitude, Dependency, and the Bodhisattva in Theravada History, Stephen Berkwitz
The Aesthetics of Excess, Maria Hibbets
Session 136. Roundtable: South Asia: The Region as Topic and Method
Session 155. Alternative Imaginations, Modern Practices: Looking for Globality in South Asia
Inside Looking Out: Imagining Migration in Hyderabad, India, Syed Ali
Identities Lost (or Never Gained): Language and the Making of Borders in Contemporary South India, Lisa Mitchell
Mapping Tollywood: The Cultural Geography of ‘Ramoji Film City’ in Hyderabad, Shanti Kumar
The Political Economy of Migration in Twentieth-Century Deccan, Christopher Chekuri
"Women of Character, Grit, and Courage": The Reservation Debate in Historical Perspective, Geraldine Forbes
Are Reservations the Way to En-Gender the Indian Parliament and State Legislatures? Manju Parikh
Toward Empowerment: A Study of Women Sarpanchs in Maharashtra, Usha Thakkar
Session 176. Vaisyas: Castes in the Middle
Alchemies of Violence: On the Cultural Identity of Rajasthani Traders, Lawrence A. Babb
Perspectives on Vaisyas from the Dharmasastras, Mary McGee
Jains, Caste, and Hierarchy in North Gujarat, John Cort
Session 177. Remembering Delhi’s Past in Sixteenth-Century India
Architecture and Historical Memories of the Delhi Sultanate, Catherine E. B. Asher
Delhi, Warangal, and Kakatiya Historical Memory, Phillip B. Wagoner
Becoming King of Delhi: The Transformation of Prithviraj Cauhan, Cynthia Talbot
Session 196. Sovereignty, Nationalism and Transnationalism: Rethinking State Formation in South Asia
Bandung Then and Now: Founding Moments of an Indian State, Itty Abraham
State of Exception as the Norm: Post-Colonial Judicial Discourse in Pakistan, Tayyab Mahmud
The Transnational Foundations of National Formations: Migration, the Nation, and State Sovereignty, Radhika Mongia
Innocent Peasants, Ignorant Masses: Discourses of Citizenship and Representation in the Indian Constituent Assembly Debates, Srirupa Roy
Session 210. From Madras to Chennai: The City that Milton Singer Never Saw
Eighteenth-Century Madras through Indian Eyes: Urban Space, Patronage, and Power in the Sanskrit Text Sarvadevalilasa, Indira V. Peterson
The "Great Tradition" and Globalization: Milton Singer and Two Generations of "The Industrial Leaders of Madras", John Harriss
Mylapore Shaiva Temples: The Royal Lord in a Middle-Class World, Joanne P. Waghorne
The Vinayaka Chaturthi Festival and the Normalization of Hindu Nationalism in Contemporary Chennai, Christopher J. Fuller